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Thursday, August 11, 2016

NCS calls for more strategic deployment of IT in security operations

Arising from its 26th National Conference, the
Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) has called on the federal government to strategically
deploy more Information Technology (IT) in the security apparatus of the state,
reports ITRealms.

NCS, in the communique from the conference which also hosted
the 49th Annual General Meeting (AGM) and made available to ITRealms, the group noted that the proactive use of IT and GIS to achieve
national safety and security has become a national imperative.

According to NCS, the conference which held at the NAF Conference
Centre, Abuja between July 19-21 acknowledged the FG's successes so far in
addressing the terrorism threat and calls for increased and more strategic
deployment of IT to this end.

“To secure the nation efficiently and effectively, there is
an urgent need to develop capability to deploy IT solutions in all aspects of
national safety and security,” the group highlighted.

For NCS, there is a great need to build capacity of security
agencies, the judiciary and related stakeholders in ICT, Cybersecurity, Digital
forensics and related expertise to understand and combat 21st century national
security challenges.

Also, the group, led by Prof. Sola Aderounmu as saying that
government and other stakeholders should aggressively begin to develop and
support youth capacity building, career development and research initiatives in
cybersecurity and plan towards the development of a Cybersecurity economic
subsector that is youth driven, local and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise
(MSME) based.

NCS further urged FG to encourage local
homegrown IT solutions and research so as to aid adopted to address our national
safety and security concerns, among others.Uboshe Uboshe/GEE
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